Director, Sourcing Optimization

Location(s):

United States of America

City/Cities:

Atlanta

Travel Required:

00% - 25%

Relocation Provided:

No

Job Posting End Date:

February 26, 2025

Shift:

Job Description Summary:

Position Overview:

As a member of the National Product Supply Group, this role plays an integral part in enabling NPSG’s mission of supporting all Regional Producing Bottlers (RPBs) by maximizing System production efficiencies and market opportunities to strengthen the competitiveness of the Coca-Cola System in the United States. NPSG’s mission is fulfilled through governance of (1) Network optimization of production to distribution center sourcing for concentrate, cold-fill products (2) Strategic capital investment and divestment planning; and (3) New product/packaging innovation planning.

The Director of Sourcing Optimization is an expert in the areas of network modeling and distribution delivery systems and is responsible for translating network modeling results into financial and business case recommendations to Senior Leadership across RPB’s and the NPSG Board. This position will lead a team of  Supply Chain Managers, own the Sourcing Optimization project pipeline, and have responsibility for the maintenance of optimization tools and identification of ongoing process improvements.

These activities require strong analytical capabilities, extensive network modeling software knowledge, ability to collaborate and manage cross-functional project teams, demonstrated ability to mentor and develop the skillset of others, and effective communication of complex business cases to senior leadership.

Primary Responsibilities:

Lead a team of 4-5 Supply Chain Managers who are responsible for the development of supply chain assessments in support of sourcing optimization initiatives and new product launches

• Provide coaching and support to team as needed from a technical perspective (network optimization software, analytics) and process / governance perspective
• Prepare team members for business case reviews with NPSG Board and Bottler Supply Chain Leaders, ensuring work is accurate
• Present the work of team as needed as outlined above
• Leverage Performance Enablement process to ensure clarity of performance expectations and prioritization of work
• Responsible for recruiting and onboarding efforts for team
• Ensure associates have defined development plans in place and monitor / support progress against them. Leads positively to drive engagement of team
• Manage portfolio of work between Sourcing Optimization projects and Innovation projects.  Prioritize work for team members across the portfolio of projects helping to enable a networked organization

Ownership of project pipeline for Sourcing Optimization projects

• Manage a pipeline of up to 30 active projects annually; provide leadership in annual evaluation of system-wide opportunities (across existing capabilities as well as amending flavor capabilities) to drive multi-year project pipeline
• Responsible for clarifying scope of project requests, establishing project timelines, and resourcing analytical support against projects
• Assess broader connections of individual sourcing optimization initiatives against the entire NPSG project portfolio – proactively gaining clarity/alignment with other initiative owners as necessary
• Ensure project recommendations are validated with impacted Bottlers prior to presenting to NPSG Board
• Prioritize resources and projects appropriately. Must be able to balance System priorities with individual Bottler priorities

Support the process to refresh baseline national sourcing model that is utilized by National Product Supply Group for governed sourcing analyses

• Provide leadership to internal resources through refresh activities, inclusive of collection of cost, demand, and production inputs from 14 Regional Producing Bottlers (RPBs)
• May be called on to establish timelines for model refresh and manage team against those
• Provide leadership in the definition and execution of established exception management routines that may result in tailored validations across impacted RPBs for purposes of maintaining ongoing model accuracy
• Provide leadership to internal resources responsible for the process of monthly updates and error checking to the model throughout the year
• Develop processes and routines to monitor model accuracy and develop update processes to ensure model is representative of the bottler network.

Conduct critical stakeholder engagement/management routines

• Ownership of the Monthly Sourcing Council routine:  defin